The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20

I bv EgSafs Carroll aad Powell in Bennett
Hall, This Schao, has sustained itself
I Syalegai6lv, and better convenleNceS in the
4 way Of more room and lettor location are
/ only pc@seS, with its present efficient and
I enaineHtlv qualified teachers 10 make il q
| complete sacceSS, The literary club is in a
/ fouriShing condition.
Friday night while Policeman Hatcher
/ was pat4'olang the Augusta union depot he
/ noticed q cololed woman apparently in much
4 pain. lie secured a hack and drove the wom-
! an 70 the police barracks. where she was or
/ der'ed to he carried at once 10 the hospital
| As Policeman Hatcher. supporting the
/ woman aScen6ed the flixht II stairs she
/ dropped dead from cause supposed 20 have
I been drolsy OF the heart, Here name snot
I known, but she stated AZ the depot that she
lived on the Sand Hills
The closing exercises Of the Galloway In
stltute, naar SalSiis church, in Wilkes coun-
Y, and OF which Prot Rhodes IS the popu-
lar principal, took place Thursday night
Recitahons, dialogues, destinations, read
lng oS original compositions ana essays,
music, etc, was the programme of the even
lng. Prof. Z. Il Galloway, of Waynes-
ooro, "a. the handsome and talented son OF
Rev. Is. NJ. Galloway, delivered the literary
address Quite large crowd attended the
exercises from Washington.
Mercer University commencement begins
with tine programme on Friday. June "a
This commencement viii be one of the most
brilliant in the history of the university
The orators who have been selected 70 de
liver the addresses are men OF ability and
eloquence. Rev Mr. Ellis. OF Baltimore.
who will preach the commencement sermon.
IS one OF the first pulpit orators IN the United
States. The music of commencement Sun
day services will be rendered by a brilliant
qGartette, consisting of Miss Jessie Harde-
man Mrs Sinda1 NJ Az
Julian Price, with Mr.. Arthur Wood organ
list.
Brunswick Mechanics Building and Loan
Association held their third annual meeting
on Wednesday. The President presented
the reports of the Secretary and Treasurer,
from which we make few extracts: Series
A, 600 shares has paid in So installments
81 600, and hold mortgages to the amount
of $50 400; each share in the series has
SIS 81 assets to to its credit. Series B, 500
shares has paid in II installments IS, 500,
and holds mortgages to the amount of
$4,000; each share of this series has S43 so
in assets to its credit. The association has
only 100 shares in all, and yet the expenses
have been only 9-10c. per share per month,
Last Thursday a murder occurred about
five miles below Dawson. Tarbo Bradford
lcoioredl shot Lee Frost also colored) with
gun, killing him instantly. There are
various rumors in regard to the killing
The facts, as near as can be ascertained. are
as follows; Bradford left home early on
THURSDAY morning, telling his wife he would
be absent during the day, but in a short
while after leaving he quietly returned and
concealed himself in the loft of his house
He watched there until about II O'Clock,
when his wife came in, soon followed by
Frost, upon which Tolbert hastily came
down out of the loft and quickly grabbed
his gun and killed Frost. The conmittal
trial will take place to-day at 3 o'clock.
Townsville Times. The chain-gang were
taken down to the six-mile post on the Dun
canville road on Tuesday for the purpose of
cutting down the short but very steep hill
near the post They took an early start and
put in a splendid days work In addition
to the guards, Mayor Hopkins, Sheriff Hurst
and Marshal SPAR went along, and the way
the boys made the dirt fly was sight. They
cut the hill completely down The work
Was finished by o'clock Steep hills have
been cut down by the gang on every other
road leading out of Townsville. The work
done on Tuesday viii be duly appreciated by
the hundreds who have had 10 pun up that
steep hill a. the slx-mile post Over 200
square yards OF dirt was moved
There Is very considerable excitement in
Camilla over the shipment of melons.
There are some eight or ten farmers ship
ping, and quite as many soliciting patron
age for different lines of railroads and
houses, east, north, west aud southwest.
Some are selling on the ground at prices
ranging from $50 and upwards The crop
VIII fall of 80 per cent. IRON the estimate
of two or three weeks ago , There is por-
ton OF Mitchell county, including Camilla,
and the melon farmers within an area OF
some three or four miles, where il is quite
dry, and hence the falling Off in the yield.
The crop in all of that section of country
extending % other counties adjoining, will
be short, and the supply will certainly be
below the demand.
Mrs. Barnard, of Headland, Henry county,
Ala, is visiting her brother, j. ". B. Kelly,
Carrollton's efficient Superior Court Clerk.
Mrs. Barnard has in her possession a de
cided curiosity in the shape of a pair OF
gold spectacles which have been in her late
husbands family for upwards of 200 years
Although intrinsieally worth only $l2 or
S15, the original cost of the heirloom is said
to have been equivalent to SIS, and it is
worth many times that sum to its present
owner. The treasure has been transmitted
from generation 20 generation, after the
manner of an old English eState-always
going to the eldest born. Mrs Barnardis
eldest daughter now owns the spectacleS,
which are in splendid state of preservation,
having never been broken but once.
Giles S. Whittier committed suicide al
0oNulElol " euilecutiN nlEnl DIV hanging.
Mr.. Whittier was 50 years of age, the father
of large family and well to do. For many
years he ran liquor house. When mo
hihition began to close in around the conn-
try in which he lived he became greatly ex-
cited and vowed that the country was
ruined. Ever since he was compelled to
close up his house his mind has been effected.
"Wednesday he took notion that the Pro
-hibitionists intended TO torture him, and
during the night he got up and expressed
his purpose OF hiding from his enemies in
the barn Thursday morning the body was
found dangling from rope which was at
tached to one of the joists. He must have
climbed up to the roof, and, scaling one of
the joists 70 the centre of the barn, attached
the rope one end to the joist and the other
end TO his neck, and, thus prepared, leaped
into the space below.
The boards of trustees OF both of Thomas.
ville'S institutions OF learning met Thursday
Ia make arrangements for another year.
Girls will be admitted to the branch of tho
university again. They were admitted last
year, ard il cut into the patronage of the
female college considerably The tuition
there was lowered, bur this did not satisfy
some of the other board, who held the bal
snce Of power, and think some changes
ssses!A-5e made in tic female college. The
female college board regard this as an un.
reasonable fight, and are considerably wor.
ried about A. They sent a messenger to the